Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Csaba Patkos, Team Lead Syneto, is a technical practitioner with 15 years of experience in the field. Joining #itakeunconf 2017 as speaker, he will share more in his talk about his experience of growing up as a team leader, mentor, and coach for the team he works with daily.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
- Reading … I mean a lot. 40-50 books / year are doable. They can mix in a few novels / literature as well.
- Made plans and fought to achieve them. Think about where you want to be in 6 months or 1 year and define the steps you need to take to get there.
- I love programming and software engineering. I do it daily, with dedication.
- Built some useful daily habits that are helping me to get better. For example listen to audio books when driving, daily reading, daily plan of work, etc.
- Talked to the people I admire and I used these talks as sources of inspiration. So, don’t be afraid to approach your professional idols, they are people just like you.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
√ Some people just won’t listen to you.
√ Some people just want to force their ideas on you.
√ Some people don’t care about the topic, they just pick fights with you.
√ Some people think you don’t care, even though you really do.
√ Other communication issues.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
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Node.JS OSS
#1. Share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
- I got the chance to work with technology from a very early age (think ZX Spectrum, Intel 8088) and also with assembly language. This taught me to appreciate constraints and never ignore optimization or be lazy.
- Discovering OSS via the Allegro game library lead me to a wealth of code to analyze and learn from.
- Getting a job in the IT department at the university while being a student there leading to four years of experimenting with whatever I wanted to.
- Teaching at the same university.
- Getting involved in the Drupal community, taking part in the creation of Romanian branch, organizing various camps and teaching Drupal.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?
#3. What else would you like to share with participants
- I am a very bad theremin player. The theremin was the first electronic instrument ever invented and you play it by not touching it. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
- I am passionate about synthesizers, old hardware and horror movies.
- I am an amateur musician using Gameboys, Commodore 64 sound chips and other retro things. I once played music in the Gara de Nord railway, at the info panel.
- I like to ride statues (usually of pigs) while pretending to be Bastian from the Neverending Story.
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I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017 – IInd day slides & videos
And…it’s a wrap: 2 days of intense & complex program, 300 international participants, more than 35 sessions & more than 35 speakers from United States, Europe and Asia. During the 2nd day of the event, 15 speakers from 10 countries shared their knowledge on Machine Learning, IoT, Evolutionary Design, Documentation for Software Developers, Impact Mapping and more.
Videos are available here. Find below the presentations from day 2. The slides from day 1 are here.
Romeo Kienzler – Realtime- Cognitive IoT using DeepLearning and Online Learning on top of ApacheSpark Streaming and Spark enabled DL frameworks (keynote)
Dan Billing – Testing or Hacking: Real Advice on Effective Security Testing Strategies (keynote)
Eduards Sizovs – Beyond Software Craftsmanship (keynote)
Dan Serban – Introduction to Apache Spark
Jakob Holderbaum – Managing Shared Secrets with basic Unix tools
Florin Coros – Decide between In-Process or Inter-Processes Communication at Deploy Time
Peter Kofler – Brutal Coding Constraints
Joe Wright – Tackling 16 years of legacy code with mob programming and Lego
Alin Pandichi – Covariance and contravariance. Say what?!
Patrick Baumgartner – Impact Mapping Workshop
Liviu – Stefanita Baiu – Journey to Agilandia – a BA Travel Kit
More slides and videos from day 2 coming soon
I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017 – Ist day videos & slides
The first day of I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017 was a great success: 15 speakers from 9 different countries shared insights and latest trends on 5 different stages.
Live coding sessions, the talks & workshops received an excellent feedback. Also, everyone got involved during the Open Space, Lightning Talks, Product Development Track & Kata Lounge. In the evening, the event continued informally at Dinner & Coding with a stranger.
Videos are available here. Find below the slides from day one. Slides from day 2 are here.
Felienne Hermans – What is science? On craftsmanship for children (Keynote)
Gerard Meszaros – It isn’t testable until it’s tested (Keynote)
Phillip Krenn – 360° monitoring of your microservices & Se7en deadly deployment sins
Martin Kodok – Powering Interactive Data Analysis with Google BigQuery
Diego Lemos & Vlad Stoian – Extreme Carpaccio: slice thin, code fast!
Thomas Coopman & Michel Grootjans – Playing with projections
Opher Vishnia – Building a multiplayer game server and keeping (most of) your hair
Vlad “Reign” Zelinschi – Progressive Web Apps – The Future
Alexandra Marin – Mobile design patterns
More slides and videos from day 1 coming soon